California - Northern

[ronott1]

Why I haven't been on BYC today... a gift from my favorite ewe:


St. Paddy's Day Quads!

It is a good thing I live in the City. Now I want Sheep! If I lived in the Country I would have so many birds and animals.

So far I have been able to send the ducks away. No Bantams yet either...I sent a Cockerel away today too. It is much quieter now in the Juvenile grow out area.

 

[ronott1]

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This one was very crafty. It did not go for peanut butter. I tried butter and Black Oil sun Flower Seeds on a regular rat trap. He licked it off without springing the trap!

The cat food is dry by it has salmon meal and fish meal in it. It has a strong smell to it. I give a cup of it a day to the layers.

 

[PetRock]

Why I haven't been on BYC today... a gift from my favorite ewe:


St. Paddy's Day Quads!

Congratulations!!! They are adorable!!! Do they get Irish names?

 

[PetRock]

They should move up to the mountains and foot hills soon. They are protected and you need to get a permit from Fish and Game to remove them.

My scrub jays are year round residents. I enjoy watching them as long as they leave my eggs alone and don't bother the other nesting birds. We have a mourning dove pair who made a nest on top of one of those crazy topsy turvy upside down pepper growing things (did not work for us). Their egg/eggs hatched this week and I've been watching them feed the baby/babies (they lay 1-2 eggs). I just hope the scrub jays leave them alone. I am looking forward to seeing the babies grow and learn to fly!

 

[LaughingFeather]

Hello everyone. I just wanted to express my experience today. I have been wanting to start a little breeding flock for some time with my families disapproval up at our place in WA up in Kitsap County. Today I got my way in a big way and it has really been nice. I have met some really nice people today and had more genetics and breeding plans given to me that my head spins. Thank goodness they are eager to help any newbie with questions for the life of your needs.

http://californiacountryranch.blogspot.com/

I got a variety of her silkies for a breeding plan up at my home in WA. Sheri was so nice and went out of her way to make my experience wonderful. I was only going to get 5 or 6 but I left with 12 and a scowl on hubbies face. I would have gotten more if he hadn't come in and said enough! The sizzle ones are so cute. Like a bad hair day. Her birds where beautiful. She had a black sizzle roo that was absolutely stunning! I was like a kid in a candy store and a pocket full of money. That is one candy store I am going back to. More flavors to try.

Then we went and got some cream legbar chicks from Miss Molly in Auburn, CA. She has every exotic rare one you could imagine. NICE birds and very clean and organized. I was very impressed. She was a joy to talk to and I would highly recommend her.
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/grd/3682121935.html

My new flock is settled down and snuggled in. I can't seem to go to bed for watching them. What a nice experience. Was surprised at the number of wild life was up in the middle of the day. Deer, turkeys, and life everywhere out in the country. I hear a tune from the Sound of Music drifting in my head. The Hills and alive....

 

[Feathersprings]

Hello everyone. I just wanted to express my experience today. I have been wanting to start a little breeding flock for some time with my families disapproval up at our place in WA up in Kitsap County. Today I got my way in a big way and it has really been nice. I have met some really nice people today and had more genetics and breeding plans given to me that my head spins. Thank goodness they are eager to help any newbie with questions for the life of your needs.

http://californiacountryranch.blogspot.com/

I got a variety of her silkies for a breeding plan up at my home in WA. Sheri was so nice and went out of her way to make my experience wonderful. I was only going to get 5 or 6 but I left with 12 and a scowl on hubbies face. I would have gotten more if he hadn't come in and said enough! The sizzle ones are so cute. Like a bad hair day. Her birds where beautiful. She had a black sizzle roo that was absolutely stunning! I was like a kid in a candy store and a pocket full of money. That is one candy store I am going back to. More flavors to try.

Then we went and got some cream legbar chicks from Miss Molly in Auburn, CA. She has every exotic rare one you could imagine. NICE birds and very clean and organized. I was very impressed. She was a joy to talk to and I would highly recommend her.
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/grd/3682121935.html

My new flock is settled down and snuggled in. I can't seem to go to bed for watching them. What a nice experience. Was surprised at the number of wild life was up in the middle of the day. Deer, turkeys, and life everywhere out in the country. I hear a tune from the Sound of Music drifting in my head. The Hills and alive....

What an exciting day for you!!! Sheri has some besutiful birds. Im sure it must have been a lot of fun picking and choosing ones for your flock Cnt wait to see pitures of them all !!! Congratualtions!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Why I haven't been on BYC today... a gift from my favorite ewe:


St. Paddy's Day Quads!

oh very cute

 

[liz9910]

Hello everyone.  I just wanted to express my experience today.  I have been wanting to start a little breeding flock for some time with my families disapproval up at our place in WA up in Kitsap County.  Today I got my way in a big way and it has really been nice.  I have met some really nice people today and had more genetics and breeding plans given to me that my head spins.  Thank goodness they are eager to help any newbie with questions for the life of your needs.

http://californiacountryranch.blogspot.com/

I got a variety of her silkies for a breeding plan up at my home in WA.  Sheri was so nice and went out of her way to make my experience wonderful.  I was only going to get 5 or 6 but I left with 12 and a scowl on hubbies face.  I would have gotten more if he hadn't come in and said enough!  The sizzle ones are so cute.  Like a bad hair day.  Her birds where beautiful.  She had a black sizzle roo that was absolutely stunning!  I was like a kid in a candy store and a pocket full of money.  That is one candy store I am going back to.  More flavors to try.

Then we went and got some cream legbar chicks from Miss Molly in Auburn, CA.  She has every exotic rare one you could imagine.  NICE birds and very clean and organized.  I was very impressed. She was a joy to talk to and I would highly recommend her. 
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/grd/3682121935.html

My new flock is settled down and snuggled in.  I can't seem to go to bed for watching them.  What a nice experience.  Was surprised at the number of wild life was up in the middle of the day.  Deer, turkeys, and life everywhere out in the country.  I hear a tune from the Sound of Music drifting in my head.  The Hills and alive....

Welcome and congrats on your chickens!

 

[juststruttin]

I have a scrub jay that raids my coop! He/she prefers my Lav AM blue eggs. At least once a week I find one with a small hole pecked in it and occasionally I have found egg yolk near the big side door that I leave open during the day. I do have some pastel colored (pink, yellow, orange) ceramic eggs in there which blend beautifully with all the different colors of brown eggs. Before I put the ceramic eggs in there, the jay would get any color of egg. Now it only gets the blue ones. They are the only eggs that stand out color wise. They are smart birds and not color blind! The jays are nest building right now so maybe they have a higher need for protein in preparation for egg laying.

Yep it is soo frusterating espeicially when I have people wait on eggs and I have to explain why I am coming up short. Unfortunately, it my birds eating the eggs in this perticular pen as the jays can't get in. It is likely the jays are getting the Orp eggs tho cuz I've seen them fly out.

 

[lawatt]

I started out this evening looking at chicken poo pictures, I was worried about two of my hens because I noticed what I thought was watery stools but after comparing with pictures they seem to be the cecal poos. Phew! I half wanted DH to glance at my screen though while I was looking at all the pictures to gross him out but he was doing his own thing.

I have a question about transitioning to nipple waterers. I have had both a double wall water container and a nipple waterer since I got my birds (I think I have had them for maybe a month or so) and I want to convert over to the nipple waterer. I have taken each bird and held her beak to the water dispenser until they felt the water come out but I've always seen them using the other traditional water dish. Does anyone have suggestions? Will they just figure it out quickly if I remove the old one? Am I just being paranoid?

my chicklets LOVE to drink water out of any sort of open container or puddle they can find, and if given both a traditional dish & a nipple waterer, they always go for traditional -- but in their coop they have long had nothing but a nipple waterer, and they use it just fine. they only abandon it if there are other options!